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WMEX Lives Up To Its Long Standing Reputation - They Don't Pay Their On-Air Talent

Wimmmex said:
I think it's as fixed as it's ever going to get.

Whatever signal problems they have are inherent.
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Not at 50KW but who needs 50KW these days? What is wrong with a better signal at a lower operating power in addition to the cost of juice being lower?
 
MickeyD said:
Not at 50KW but who needs 50KW these days? What is wrong with a better signal at a lower operating power in addition to the cost of juice being lower?
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You are assuming there is a better signal to be had with less power?

If you have an idea...please share it...otherwise I don't know what you are talking about.
 
It would have to be substantially less power in order to protect WLAC and WKBW. And lowering power makes the signal more susceptible to increased interference.
 
Wimmmex said:
You are assuming there is a better signal to be had with less power?

If you have an idea...please share it...otherwise I don't know what you are talking about.
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The station is licensed to Boston and serves Nova Scotia and the Maritimes as well as Europe at night. I don't expect you to know what I am talking about.
 
the higher on the spectrum the more power you need. 5kw on 590 gives decent coverage, 5kw on 1510 gives you crap.

Yes the signal broadcasts to fish and foreign lands, even if you dropped to 5kw, you still have to protect the other signals on the same freq, adjacent freq's, comply with international agreements, etc.

Where in Greater Boston do you think you are going to put a new AM transmitter site. You might be able to lease space on a tower and diplex (assuming they are not locked into a long term lease at the existing site) but look at the last time an AM tried to do a move and major rebuild... the NIMBY's came out on force and it was in court for a number of years.

real estate is too valuable inside of 495 to support a new antenna farm. look at how many AM's are for sale in other parts of the country, without tower sites, because they sold the land under the sticks for more than the station was worth, and they are selling the license as a shot in the dark rather than letting it go dark.

1510 is screwed
 
WMEX was fine in the 50's and the early 60's with Fenway, Melvin X...when sober, Arnie Woo Woo Ginsburg, Jerry Williams and Larry Glick and Steve Fredericks overnight.

The problem for WMEX was the demographic shift of many families out of Boston to the suburbs where it was nearly impossible to pick up 'MEX and far worse past sunset.

Unless WMEX can recapature an urban - perhaps gentrified demographic audience its future will continue to marginal at best
 
Omnibus said:
Unless WMEX can recapature an urban - perhaps gentrified demographic audience its future will continue to marginal at best
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I would vote for a well done black or Spanish formatted station. (black or Spanish AC....a little talk, music news, etc.)

Would love to see nostalgia, Music of your life...or something like that.

All those formats would have listeners who would go through some effort to receive it.

$.02
 
Dollar-a-holler religion or scam informercials seem the most likely fate for this dog of a signal that hasn't had an appreciable audience in decades, unfortunately. Such a format will cover the power bills and the salaries of the half dozen or so people it will take to run the operation.
 
It's hard to imagine that, with CJRS and WNLC gone, and with KGA having voluntarily dropped from Class A to Class B, something can't be done about WMEX's signal. I guess with little or no ratings or big bucks coming in, it's hard to justify the expense.
 
Very good point about the struggle to send out a signal on the right side of the AM dial. WRKO at 680 is in a better position but even they are hemmed in at night by other stations (look at the maps on radio-locator).WMEX also may be constricted by other signals on 1500 and 1520.Also true about the move people made to the suburbs and exurbs...stations like WMEX and also WCOP 1150 had it better years ago.

Station for black community?Maybe but hey WILD is black owned and they're leasing to the Chinese govt. At least 1510 is full time but oh that signal..good on the coast but...
Also 1260 up for sale and who knows if anyone will grab that..Spanish--iHeart has Mia at 1430,Costa Eagle has 800 in Lawrence;Lynn has a new Spanish religious LPFM at 89.3 and then there are pirates.
 
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aerie said:
It's hard to imagine that, with CJRS and WNLC gone, and with KGA having voluntarily dropped from Class A to Class B, something can't be done about WMEX's signal. I guess with little or no ratings or big bucks coming in, it's hard to justify the expense.
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Even though CJRS is gone, U.S. stations still have to protect Canadian allocations.

I seem to remember 1510 Boston already loosened their pattern when WNLC turned in their license in 1998... it didn't free up that much space.

We're not talking about one problem when it comes to this station. We're talking about the problems that most AM stations have, when it comes to the technology itself. No format can save AM radio in the long run. Plus, it's high on the band, with a marginal signal, no heritage, and a sky high lease payment every month. And at this point, would it even be worth the cost of building a new array, if you could even FIND a place to build it? Probably not.
 
DJ Chris Porter on his facebook:"THIS JUST IN: Be sure to join me and Jim Callahan starting this Saturday night from 6-9 PM as we bring you back to good old days by playing the greatest hits of the '50s and '60s along with the original WMEX jingles on the legendary 50,000 watt powerhouse 1510 WMEX in Boston!!! "
 
WMEX has posted on Facebook: 1510 WMEX is still here as Boston's Best Talk Station.
We are constucting new Facebook/twitter pages with all new updates.
it will be up by Monday. BUT until then you can still hear all you're (sic) favorite shows on 1510 WMEX.
thank you for you're support.
 
Now playing Dirty Water, Standells. When Clear channel/iHeart debuted WHBA 101.7 "The Harbor" variety hits they played it a couple times
 
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